Let me make a remark about point number 3 in the article.

FORBES: 1 Thing Every New Hire Should Get On Their First Day

She's the rare movie star who could make such a remark without sounding like she's rehearsing a role.

WSJ: How Sissy Spacek Got From Small-Town Texas to 'Carrie' and 'The Help'

Anyone who wants to look clever at a cocktail party can simply make a disparaging remark about American schools and everyone will giggle and nod appreciatively.

FORBES: Why US education deserves our praise (and funding)

Her younger brother, Mediaset deputy chairman Pier Silvio, demanded to know how Mr Franceschini dared make such a "bad taste" remark.

BBC: Berlusconi denies 'spicy' affair

Then there was a silence, and I wondered whether I should make some trivial remark about the island or about holidays or some other almost equally trivial remark about the activities we had observed on the beach.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

To make things even worse, Gillian Duffy, a former council employee from Rochdale and the object of Mr Brown's remark, would appear to be a walking archetype of Labour's core vote.

ECONOMIST: Britain��s election